Quotes About Education

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.